Lonzo Ball Quotes

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

There's been a lot thrust on my shoulders at a very young age.

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

I'm grateful that I didn't get thrown into the limelight at 19-years-old.

When you stay with Barcelona and are only 15 or 16, the people show you a lot of time, and you are in the newspaper every day. This sometimes is good, but sometimes this is bad.

It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.

I have a lot of eyes on me because of basketball, a lot of young people looking up to me. It's made me grow up faster.

When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.

That's probably fair to say that there is a certain amount of pressure to deliver your next role when you do have a fan base as potent as the 'Battlestar Galactica' family. There was certainly a lot of curiosity to all of us on that show - what are you going to do next? Where can we see you next? That was a question we got more often than not.

I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.

When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

It isn't easy being a celebrity cricketer in India.

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

It is not always a treat to grow up as the heir to a world-famous leader.

You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don't know who you are.

Growing up in any sort of spotlight is difficult. Everything is magnified.

You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't cancel anything, because it's just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band.

I think stardom means a big responsibility that one has to shoulder.

I was a young player, young star in this league. I probably wasn't handling the responsibility the way I should.

After my hit 'Mynaa', big offers came to me. I didn't know how to handle things. Once you know how to handle things and you come of age, you want to do mature films.